The Centre offers professional learning experiences for the VIU campus community during all months of the year. Some sessions are solely geared to teaching faculty members who are currently teaching. All sessions are free to attend. Use the digital calendar to find out more.
Supporting International Students at VIU: Strategies, Insights and Opportunities
Grading Overwhelm: When you Want to Grade Differently, But You’re Not Sure How
How Can You Save Your Students Money, Respect the Environment and Build Accessible Communities?
Preparing For The Under-prepared Studio
Preparing For The Under-prepared
Teaching with Student Groups: A Studio
20 Minute Magic: This is NOT a Test: Showcasing Alternate Uses of VIULearn’s Quiz Tool
Group Work that Works
Teaching with Student Groups: A Studio
Group Work that Works
Difficult Conversations in the Classroom Studio
Difficult Conversations in the Classroom
Equity and Equality: Working with Students with Disabilities
VIU’s New Faculty Orientation to Teaching
VIU's Recognition of Achievements Celebration
UnTeach: Engage Your Students for Lasting Impact
20 Minute Magic: Asynchronous Tools for Student Interaction
VIU Faculty Studio: Making Your Lectures Consequential for Students
20 Minute Magic: Synchronous Tools for Student Interaction
Delivering Lectures with greater IMPACT
Delivering Lectures with greater IMPACT
Wikipedia Editathon - #OAWeek2019
Starting the Semester off Right: Capitalizing on the First Day of Class
Equity and Equality: Working with Students with Disabilities
Keep Your Courses Safe: Backing Up Course Content in VIULearn
Keep Your Courses Safe: Backing Up Course Content in VIULearn
Faculty Focus: A Conversation on Teaching and Learning
Welcome to WordPress: Getting Started with VIUBlogs
The UnMarking Studio: Balancing Student Needs with Faculty Realities
Faculty Focus: A Conversation on Teaching and Learning
Dover Bay Grade 8's Coming to VIU to Share Learning: How Does Where We Live Impact How We Live?
Portfolio Slams Lunch
Writing Intensive: Portfolio Statements, Evidence, Peer Feedback
Writing Intensive: Portfolio Statements, Evidence, Peer Feedback
Presentation of your Portfolio: How WordPress can help
Writing Intensive: Portfolio Statements
Writing your Teaching Philosophy Statement
Building your Leadership Portfolio
Capturing your Story: Designing Teaching Portfolios to Express your Professional Narrative
Recognition of Achievements: Information Session Lunch
Course Portfolios: What are They, and Why Make One?
Mini-Portfolios to Celebrate Big Impact
Energize Student Participation and Improve Attendance with Team-Based Learning
VIU’s New Faculty Orientation to Teaching
COWICHAN: Catch Me if You Can! (Or, Why Students Cheat - and What You Can Do About It)
The UnMarking Studio: Balancing Student Needs with Faculty Realities
Enrich Media Content with Video Quizzing
Can Assignments be FUN (For The Students And For Me?)
Let's Go Outside! Teaching In The Outdoor Classroom
The UnMarking Studio: Balancing Student Needs with Faculty Realities
New Rubrics Experience
Recognition of Achievements in Teaching and Learning Program: Awareness Session
Learning Technology Insights: Rubrics
Using Technology for Formative Assessment
Smart Phones in the Classroom: Learning Technology or Distraction?
Equity and Equality: Working with Students with Disabilities
Why Does This Always Happen? Reflecting on Conundrums in the Classroom
The UnMarking Studio: Balancing Student Needs with Faculty Realities
Recognition of Achievements in Teaching and Learning Program: Awareness Session
Better Student Preparation for Active Participation
Making Your Course Learning Technology Ready
VIU’s New Faculty Orientation to Teaching
COWICHAN: Making Your Course Learning Technology Ready
The Tao of Marking: Finding Joy by “De-Complicating” Grades and Feedback
The Tao of Marking: Finding Joy by “De-Complicating” Grades and Feedback
Making Your Course Learning Technology Ready
The UnMarking Studio: Balancing Student Needs with Faculty Realities
The UnMarking Studio: Balancing Student Needs with Faculty Realities
You’ve Got This! Discovering the Graduate Attributes You’re Already Teaching
You’ve Got This! Discovering the Graduate Attributes You’re Already Teaching
VIU Wikipedia Edit-a-thon & Community of Practice Meet up
FULL: Breaking Ground:Connecting Learning Experiences from K-12 to Post-Secondary
VIU's Recognition of Achievements Celebration
The UnMarking Studio: Balancing Student Needs with Faculty Realities
Leading Virtual Classes: Enhanced Use of VIU’s Web Conferencing Platform (Zoom)
The UnMarking Studio: Balancing Student Needs with Faculty Realities
The UnMarking Studio: Balancing Student Needs with Faculty Realities
The Tao of Marking: Finding Joy by “De-Complicating” Grades and Feedback
Leading Virtual Classes: Enhanced Use of VIU’s Web Conferencing Platform (Zoom)
Leading Virtual Classes: Enhanced Use of VIU’s Web Conferencing Platform (Zoom)
COWICHAN: The Tao of Marking: Finding Joy by “De-Complicating” Grades and Feedback
The Tao of Marking: Finding Joy by “De-Complicating” Grades and Feedback
Recognition of Achievements in Teaching and Learning Program: Awareness Session
Teaching Across Campuses with Video-Conferencing: Pedagogy and Technology Tips and Techniques:
Keep Your Courses Safe: Backing Up Course Content in VIULearn
Get the Semester off to a Good Start: VIULearn Checklist
Recognition of Achievements in Teaching and Learning Program: Awareness Session
Protecting the Academic Integrity of Online Quizzes: Tips and Tricks to Stop Cheating
Meet the Lightboard: Creating Engaging Video Lessons
Lights, Camera, Action!: Screencasting with VIUTube’s CaptureSpace
Building your Leadership Portfolio
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalized Learning
Equity and Equality: Working with Students with Disabilities
Virtual Classes and Meetings: Introduction to VIU's Web Conferencing Platform - Zoom!
Virtual Classes and Meetings: Introduction to VIU's Web Conferencing Platform - Zoom!
Virtual Classes and Meetings: Introduction to VIU's Web Conferencing Platform - Zoom!
Meet the Lightboard: Creating Engaging Video Lessons
Portfolios, Blogs, and Websites: Using the VIUBlog Platform for Student Assignments and Activities
Capturing your Story: Designing Teaching Portfolios to Express your Professional Narrative
Teaching Across Campuses with Video-Conferencing: Pedagogy and Technology Tips and Techniques:
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
Recognition of Achievements in Teaching and Learning Program: Awareness Session
Get the Semester off to a Good Start: VIULearn Checklist
COWICHAN: Get the Semester off to a Good Start: VIULearn Checklist
Get the Semester off to a Good Start: VIULearn Checklist
Get the Semester off to a Good Start: VIULearn Checklist
Virtual Classes and Meetings: Introduction to VIU's Web Conferencing Platform - Zoom!
Course Portfolios: What are They, and Why Make One?
VIU’s New Faculty Orientation to Teaching
Portfolio Slams Lunch
Writing Intensive: Portfolio Statements, Evidence, Peer Feedback
Writing Intensive: Portfolio Statements, Evidence, Peer Feedback
Peer Observations for Richer Faculty Conversations
Presentation of your Portfolio: How WordPress can help
Writing Intensive: Portfolio Statements
Writing your Teaching Philosophy Statement
Building your Leadership Portfolio
Capturing your Story: Designing Teaching Portfolios to Express your Professional Narrative
Recognition of Achievements: Inofrmation Session Lunch
Course Portfolios: What are They, and Why Make One?
Mini-Portfolios to Celebrate Big Impact
COWICHAN: Hands-On Exporting Course Session: New VIULearn Course Retention Process: Deletion of Courses from 2012 – 2015
Hands-On Exporting Course Session: New VIULearn Course Retention Process: Deletion of Courses from 2012 – 2015
Hands-On Exporting Course Session: New VIULearn Course Retention Process: Deletion of Courses from 2012 – 2015
Hands-On Exporting Course Session: New VIULearn Course Retention Process: Deletion of Courses from 2012 – 2015
Hands-On Exporting Course Session: New VIULearn Course Retention Process: Deletion of Courses from 2012 – 2015
Information Session: New VIULearn Course Retention Process: Deletion of Courses from 2012 – 2015
Information Session: New VIULearn Course Retention Process: Deletion of Courses from 2012 – 2015
Information Session: New VIULearn Course Retention Process: Deletion of Courses from 2012 – 2015
Information Session: New VIULearn Course Retention Process: Deletion of Courses from 2012 – 2015
ONLINE: Information Session: New VIULearn Course Retention Process: Deletion of Courses from 2012 – 2015
Information Session: New VIULearn Course Retention Process: Deletion of Courses from 2012 – 2015
Giving Students an Education for the Future: BC’s Education Transformation
Aware, But Might You Share? The Trickle-up Effect of VIU’s Graduate Attributes
Graduate Attributes: What Does this Have to do with Me?
Lights, Camera, Action!: Screencasting with VIUTube’s CaptureSpace
Mini-Portfolios to Celebrate Big Impact
The VIU Difference: What Sets Our Graduates Apart?
Student Digital Learning Experience: VIU Campus Input Session
Student Digital Learning Experience: VIU Campus Input Session
Student Digital Learning Experience: VIU Campus Input Session
Student Digital Learning Experience: VIU Campus Input Session
Quizzes, Quizzes, Quizzes: An Intensive Workshop for Faculty
Capturing your Story: Designing Teaching Portfolios to Express your Professional Narrative
Equity and Equality: Working with Students with Disabilities
Protecting the Academic Integrity of Online Quizzes: Tips and Tricks to Stop Cheating
Capturing your Story: Designing Teaching Portfolios to Express your Professional Narrative
Teaching the Students of Today: Exploring our Roles and Responsibilities as Educators
Put Rubrics Online to Save Time
Six Strategies from the Science of Learning: Helping Students Be Successful
What’s My Mark?: Going Beyond Numbers in VIULearn Grades (Part 2)
Peer Observations for Richer Faculty Conversations
Course Portfolios: What are they? Why make one?*
What’s My Mark?: Using VIULearn to Communicate Grades to Students (Part 1)
Six Strategies from the Science of Learning: Helping Students Be Successful
Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
[ONLINE WEBINAR] Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
COWICHAN - Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
Capturing your Story: Using Teaching Portfolios to Express your Professional Narrative
Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
The Authentic Professor: Toward Trust, Connection and Vulnerability in Teaching
Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
COWICHAN - Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
[ONLINE WEBINAR] Changes in BC K-12 Curriculum: Impacts on Post-Secondary Education
Recognition of Achievements in Teaching and Learning: Info Session
Recognition of Achievements in Teaching and Learning: Info Session
VIU's New Faculty Orientation to Teaching
Meet the Lightboard: Creating Engaging Video Lessons
VIUTube: Come Learn What is New and Exciting with Streaming Video and Audio!
COWICHAN - VIUTube: Come Learn What is New and Exciting with Streaming Video and Audio!
Students as Researchers: Getting Students to Ask Better Questions, More Often
Course Portfolios: What are they? Why make one?*
What’s New In VIULearn: Quiz Tool Updates
What’s New In VIULearn: Quiz Tool Updates
Equity and Equality: Working with Students with Disabilities
Peer Observations for Richer Faculty Conversations
Peer Observations for Richer Faculty Conversations
Key Practices that Ensure Effective Group Work
Online Textbook Resources and Web Tools: Alternatives to Ensuring Students' Personal Information is Private While Using Online Resources
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning
Recognition of Achievement in Teaching and Learning: Introduction and Details
Key Practices that Ensure Effective Group Work
Online Textbook Resources and Web Tools: Alternatives to Ensuring Students' Personal Information is Private While Using Online Resources
Meet the VIU Lightboard: Creating Engaging Video Lessons
VIUTube: Come Learn What is New and Exciting with Streaming Video and Audio!
Get Ready for the Future: A “Thinkshop” for VIU Faculty on Responding to or Initiating Change
Get the Semester off to a Good Start: VIULearn Checklist
Get the Semester off to a Good Start: VIULearn Checklist
Get the Semester off to a Good Start: VIULearn Checklist
Six Strategies from the Science of Learning: Helping Students Be Successful
Six Strategies from the Science of Learning: Helping Students Be Successful
Six Strategies from the Science of Learning: Helping Students Be Successful
Lightboard Creation Sprint
Lightboard Creation Sprint
Portfolios, Blogs, and Websites: Using the VIUBlog Platform for Student Assignments and Activities
Portfolios, Blogs, and Websites: Using the VIUBlog Platform for Student Assignments and Activities
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
VIU Learning Technology Consultations
Online Textbook Resources and Web Tools: Alternatives to Ensuring Students' Personal Information is Private While Using Online Resources
Meet the Lightboard: Creating Engaging Video Lessons
Finding What Works For Me: Student Perspectives on Learning
Lightboard Creation Sprint
Teaching and Learning Show 'n' Share: Teaching in the Marshes: VIU's Bird Banding Classroom
New Faculty Orientation to Teaching at VIU
Blended and Online Learning Course Redesign
Team-Based Learning Course Redesign Program
Aligning, Assigning and Redesigning: Effective Course Assessment for Student Learning
Faculty Practices for Professional Growth and Institutional Impact
Faculty Practices for Professional Growth and Institutional Impact
Promoting Inquiry in the Classroom: What Did We Learn?
Assessment in the Messiness and Variety of Student Creativity
TOTAL RECALL: Metacognitive Strategies to Help Students Learn More Effectively
Teaching and Learning Show 'n' Share: Staying Connected: Creating and Maintaining Community in Online Learning Environments - ONLINE
COWICHAN Teaching and Learning Show ‘n’ Share: Boring Academic Writingand Why We Should Un-Zzzzzzzzz It
Student Self-Assessment and Reflective Learning Through the use of ePortfolios
Students Co-Creating Course Content and Evaluating Own Learning
Best Practices for Using VIULearn’s Quizzes
Assessing Outside the Box: Creative Uses of VIULearn Technology Tools
More Feedback in Less Time - Using Rubrics in VIULearn
Less Marking, More Learning: It’s Time to Take Back Saturday Night!!
Design Writing Assignments that You Actually Want to Read!
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn (D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn (D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn (D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn (D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn (D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn (D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn (D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface - COWICHAN CAMPUS
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn (D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn (D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn (D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface - ONLINE VERSION
Teaching and Learning Show 'n' Share: Video Podcasts and Collaborative Writing
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn (D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn (D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn (D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Teaching and Learning Show 'n' Share: Managing Group Work and Using Infographics and Stories
New Faculty Orientation to Teaching
Teaching and Learning Show 'n' Share - Indigenous Portfolios and Interdisciplinary Simulations
VIU Teaching + Learning Conference
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn(D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn(D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn(D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Teaching and Learning Show 'n' Share - Baking and Twitter
Daylight is Coming! VIULearn(D2L) Moves to a Modern and Responsive Design Interface
Engagement through Experiential Learning Share Out
Self-Regulated Learning Share Out
Learning through Structured Inquiry Share Out
Inclusive Classrooms by Design: Ensuring that Group Work Really Works
Teaching and Learning Show 'n' Share: Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program
Achieving Potential: Curriculum Design to Increase Student Success
Don’t Leave Inclusion to Chance
A Global Perspective on Indigenous Teaching and Learning: What Can We Learn from New Zealand?
Best Practices for Facilitating Online Learning: VIU Community of Practice
Best Practices for Facilitating Online Learning: VIU Community of Practice
Best Practices for Facilitating Online Learning: VIU Community of Practice
Indigenous Learning Circle
COWICHAN: Successful Student Learning Initiative: Reporting Back - What does student learning look like for you?
Let’s Teach Online: Communication and Community Building Strategies for Online and Blended Courses
POWELL RIVER: The Institutional Development of Indigenous Organizations: Lessons for Post-Secondary Institutions
COWICHAN: De-institutionalizing the Complexity of Learning
New Faculty Orientation to Teaching at VIU
Team-Based Learning Institute (cont'd)
Team-Based Learning Institute
VIU Teaching + Learning Conference
Shift Happens? Paradigms and Syntagms in Post-Secondary Teaching and Learning - Leaders on Learning
Learning to facilitate learning: How my early experiences as a faculty member shaped my understanding of the potential for each student’s success - Leaders on Learning
Learning to Deal with Real World Problems: Are we there yet? - Leaders on Learning
Let’s Teach Online: Communication and Community Building Strategies for Online and Blended Courses Day 1
Conversations in the Cloud: Implementing Open Reflective Writing Experiences Day 1
Activate, Abdicate, Articulate: Promoting Autonomy of Thought
Student Challenges: Can They be Mitigated?
Creating Learning Communities
Learning to Live Together: Our Most Daunting Challenge
Flipped Learning: Changing Up the Ways Students Learn
Accessible Learning Design: Striving to Create an Inclusive Classroom for All Learners
Peer Observation: How Faculty Can Support Each Other?
For Chairs: Part 2 Gathering Data to Make Informed Program Decisions
For Chairs: Part 2 Gathering Data to Make Informed Program Decisions
For Chairs: Part 1 Supporting Teaching and Learning at the Department Level
COWICHAN: Creating Substantive, Purposeful Discussions
Creating Substantive, Purposeful Discussions
Creating Substantive, Purposeful Discussions
Faculty Fast Start Institute
New Faculty Connections
VIU Learning Technologies Basecamp
New Faculty Orientation to Teaching at VIU
Leaders on Learning: Transformational Learning: The Role of Experience and Culture
Leaders on Learning: Reflective Practice: Learning by Doing
Spotlight on Faculty: “We Energized our Classrooms with Team-Based Learning!!”
VIULearn Essentials Bootcamp
Team-Based Learning Institute Day 2
Team-Based Learning Institute Day 1
A Mini-Makeover for Your Course: Aligning Learning Outcomes to Assessment and Teaching Strategies Part 3
A Mini-Makeover for Your Course: Aligning Learning Outcomes to Assessment and Teaching Strategies Part 2
A Mini-Makeover for Your Course: Aligning Learning Outcomes to Assessment and Teaching Strategies Part 1
Developing Self-Regulated Learners: Equipping Students with Skills and Knowledge to be Independent Learners Part 3
Developing Self-Regulated Learners: Equipping Students with Skills and Knowledge to be Independent Learners Part 2
Developing Self-Regulated Learners: Equipping Students with Skills and Knowledge to be Independent Learners Part 1
Accessible Learning Design: Striving to Create an Inclusive Classroom for All Learners
Flipped Learning: Changing Up the Ways Students Learn
Peer Observation: How Faculty Can Support Each Other?
Assessment of Student Learning: What Counts as Evidence of Learning?
Classroom Climate: Building Rapport and Respect from Day One
Clickers: Classroom Response Systems in Action
Clickers: Classroom Response Systems in Action
For Chairs: Supporting Teaching and Learning at the Department Level
For Chairs: Supporting Teaching and Learning at the Department Level
COWICHAN Self-Regulated Learning
COWICHAN Thinking Critically about the Teaching of Critical Thinking
Thinking Critically about the Teaching of Critical Thinking
Thinking Critically about the Teaching of Critical Thinking
VIULearn Drop In Time
VIULearn Drop In Time
VIULearn Drop In Time
VIULearn Drop In Time
VIULearn Drop In Time
VIULearn Drop In Time
VIULearn Drop In Time
COWICHAN VIULearn Drop In Time
New Faculty Connections
New Faculty Connections
New Faculty Connections
COWICHAN The Skinny on Learning Outcomes
The Skinny on Learning Outcomes
The Skinny on Learning Outcomes
The Skinny on Learning Outcomes
Make the First Day of Class Count
VIULearn Essentials Bootcamp
COWICHAN Bootcamp
Faculty Fast Start Institute
Tips for Registering
Registration for most of our sessions is through inVIU, log in to the inVIU Pro D Calendar (https://inviu.viu.ca) with your computer account credentials, choose the date of the session you are interested in and select 'Register Me'. If you run into any problems, you can call 250.740.6179 or email to learnsupport@viu.ca for assistance.
After you have registered, you can add the session to your Outlook calendar by finding the session listed under My Courses on the right side of the screen and clicking on the calendar icon beside the time of the session. Save and Close in Outlook when the window opens in your calendar.